is a commonly held belief that politicians use this spending to improve their chances of re-election. One way that an … incumbent can increase their chances of re-election is through increased fundraising. Political entrepreneurs see this …

During the 2016 election to the Student Parliament of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), an experiment on … 'The Third Vote' was conducted. The goal was to test an alternative election method based on the idea of internet voting … advice applications (VAAs). Under the election method tested, the voters cast no direct votes for candidate parties; rather …

that are in opposition to their policy preferences. This results in the election of representatives who do not correspond … exactly to the voters' own views. An alternative voting procedure to avoid this type of election failure is proposed in … Wahl-O-Mat, which asks the user a number of questions on topical policy issues; the computer program, drawing on all the …